THROOP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Binghamton, New York man is facing multiple charges after Pennsylvania State Police said a traffic stop in Lackawanna County led to the discovery of drugs and an improperly restrained child.<\/p>\n
According to state police, troopers conducted a traffic stop late May 9 on Sanderson Street in Throop Borough for an alleged vehicle code violation.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the driver, identified as 36-year-old Darl Ellis, appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance and was allegedly found in possession of drug paraphernalia. Police also reported that a passenger in the vehicle was allegedly under the influence and possessed drugs and related paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
Troopers said an infant in the vehicle was not properly secured in a car seat at the time of the stop.<\/p>\n
Ellis was taken into custody and transported to the Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Dunmore for processing. The child was later released to grandparents, according to police.<\/p>\n
Authorities said Ellis was subsequently transported to the Lackawanna County Jail after being unable to post bail.<\/p>\n
Police said he is charged with felony endangering the welfare of a child, DUI-related offenses, possession of drug paraphernalia and several summary traffic violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THROOP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Binghamton, New York man is facing multiple charges after Pennsylvania State Police said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-195043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}